Horror

Miss Zombie

Sabu’s latest is a bleak, expressionistic, low budget retelling of Kim Ki-Young’s The Housemaid. With zombies. Read More
We Are What We Are

I loved Jim Mickle’s remake of Jorge Michel Grau’s equally impressive Mexican cannibal drama. Script changes all justifed & well handled, performances strong & Catskills setting beautifully eerie. Read More
The Green Inferno

This throwback cannibal flick is the natural summation of all Eli Roth’s travelogue horrors. As gruesome & darkly comic as we could hope for. Read More
Chanthaly

One of only a hadnful of films ever to have been made in Laos, Mattie Do’s ghost story is not only the Communist nation’s first horror film but the film… Read More
Witching & Bitching

Alex de la Iglesia goes hell-for-leather with this riotous horror comedy that will likely draw parallels with Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk Till Dawn for its heist-turned-horror switcheroo narrative. Hugo Silva… Read More
The Devils

Ken Russell’s 1971 masterpiece ranks as one of my favourite films of all-time and the opportunity to see it on the big screen with a Fantastic Fest audience was not… Read More
Patrick

I haven’t seen the original version of Patrick, and had only heard of it thanks to Mark Hartley’s breakout documentary, Not Quite Hollywood. Here, Hartley delivers his first fictional feature,… Read More
Bad Milo

An intriguing premise is left under-developed in this lacklustre horror comedy that has aspirations towards Joe Dante and Frank Henenlotter. Ken Marino’s irritible bowel syndrome proves to be caused by… Read More
The Fall of the House of Usher

Roger Corman adapted a number of Edgar Allan Poe stories for the big screen, and frequently colloborated with horror icon Vincent Price. The Fall of the House of Usher proved… Read More
The Lords of Salem

Until I have managed to successfully avoid the films of Rob Zombie, not particularly through any deliberate intention on my part, but simply because I have had not overwhelming desre… Read More
Tenebrae

I had always harboured fond memories of Dario Argento’s 1982 slasher flick, as it was the very first of his films I ever saw. I had not rewatched it until… Read More
Rigor Mortis

Juno Mak’s directorial debut is a moody revivial of the quintessentially Hong Kong hopping vampire films of the 1980s. Assembling a cast of horror veterans, headed by Chin Siu Ho,… Read More
The Fog

Right in the middle of his golden period, John Carpenter gave us this entertaining ghost story about a small coastal town founded atop a leper colony that is enveloped in… Read More
The Conjuring

James Wan’s most interesting and artistically successful film since the original Saw goes back to basics, delivering an incredibly effective haunted house tale, with some added ghost hunter fun thrown… Read More
Possession

A pinnacle of sorts in the world of bizarro Euro-horror that manages to stand alone as a singular work of such courage, confidence and baffling derangement that once seen it… Read More
Curse of the Malayan Vampire

Quite possibly the weirdest film I’ve seen all year, which one would think would be reason enough to warrant some kind of recommendation. However, after a pretty gonzo horror-fuelled opening… Read More
Insensibles

Excellent Spanish thriller that takes two seemingly separate story strands and sends them hurtling towards each other with predictably shocking, tragic consequences. In the Spanish countryside on the eve of… Read More
Frankenstein’s Army

After months reading about Richard Raaphorst’s Nazi era found footage zombie movie, I was rather underwhlemed by the whole experience. The central conceit, in which a young Russian soldier is… Read More